What is the difference between the Dot and the Echo? null

The echo has a fairly good speaker built in suitable for listening to music - given its size. The dot has a small utility speaker and is designed for providing responses to your questions/commands. The dot is designed to be hooked up to external speakers via Bluetooth or rca type adaptor. The dot is very small relative to the Echo.

The echo has more microphones making it more than a one room item, it stretches through your whole floor. The dot only can hear you through a few rooms.

The amazon echo is larger and has a built in high def speaker. The dot does not however it does have a small built in speaker so it can work on it's own. The built in speaker for the dot is actually pretty decent but if you want higher quality sound for music you are definitely going to want to pair it with a nice bluetooth speaker or even connect it via aux to speaker.

$130 dollars cheaper. Far better hardware performance. It has a Smaller speaker, but you can hook it up to an external speaker to get great sound.

Feature-wise, they are basically identical. The major difference between the two is the Echo is larger and that's because it has a larger and more substantial speaker built in. The Dot still has a speaker but doesn't have the sound quality like it's larger cousin. You can get a Dot and pair it up to a nice Bluetooth speaker or plug it into your home stereo and achieve the same or better results. Even if you didn't use an additional speaker with the Dot, volume is not an issue. Alexa's responses are still easily heard with it's out-of-box configuration.

Sound quality. And some what the quality of microphones. I have both and the echo has a lot better sound. But for voice (weather, news, etc) the dot is fine and half the price.

speaker quality from what I can tell.a friend has the echo and that's all I can see that is different

THE DOT DOES NOT HAVE A HIGH QUALITY SOUND AND SPEAKER SYSTEM BUT IT HAS BLUETOOTH AND HEADPHONE OUTPUTS. THE ECHO HAS A NICE SOUNDING MONO SOUND SYSTEM BUT NO BLUETOOTH AND HEADPHONE STEREO OUTPUTS

Only the speaker and the price!

I have both of these and the dot does the same things an echo can do the same things. So there are not much differences between the two

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The echo has a fairly good speaker built in suitable for listening to music - given its size. The dot has a small utility speaker and is designed for providing responses to your questions/commands. The dot is designed to be hooked up to external speakers via Bluetooth or rca type adaptor. The dot is very small relative to the Echo.
Answered by Tomc 9 years ago
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The echo has more microphones making it more than a one room item, it stretches through your whole floor. The dot only can hear you through a few rooms.
Answered by tlitonyli 9 years ago
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The amazon echo is larger and has a built in high def speaker. The dot does not however it does have a small built in speaker so it can work on it's own. The built in speaker for the dot is actually pretty decent but if you want higher quality sound for music you are definitely going to want to pair it with a nice bluetooth speaker or even connect it via aux to speaker.
Answered by Zionmaster 9 years ago
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$130 dollars cheaper. Far better hardware performance. It has a Smaller speaker, but you can hook it up to an external speaker to get great sound.
Answered by Engineer 9 years ago
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Feature-wise, they are basically identical. The major difference between the two is the Echo is larger and that's because it has a larger and more substantial speaker built in. The Dot still has a speaker but doesn't have the sound quality like it's larger cousin. You can get a Dot and pair it up to a nice Bluetooth speaker or plug it into your home stereo and achieve the same or better results. Even if you didn't use an additional speaker with the Dot, volume is not an issue. Alexa's responses are still easily heard with it's out-of-box configuration.
Answered by Hubie 8 years ago
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Sound quality. And some what the quality of microphones. I have both and the echo has a lot better sound. But for voice (weather, news, etc) the dot is fine and half the price.
Answered by DoctorZ 8 years ago
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speaker quality from what I can tell.a friend has the echo and that's all I can see that is different
Answered by beefcake 8 years ago
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Size
Answered by JohnB 9 years ago
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THE DOT DOES NOT HAVE A HIGH QUALITY SOUND AND SPEAKER SYSTEM BUT IT HAS BLUETOOTH AND HEADPHONE OUTPUTS. THE ECHO HAS A NICE SOUNDING MONO SOUND SYSTEM BUT NO BLUETOOTH AND HEADPHONE STEREO OUTPUTS
Answered by Ydnas 8 years ago
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Only the speaker and the price!
Answered by Kat22 8 years ago
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